The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-07-07
AMERICANS IN ENGLAND.
THEIR NUMBER GRADUALLY G INcREAs-
ING EACH YEAR.

1t is Believed That There is To-day About
Two Hundred Thousand Americans In
London--BunalO Bills PopuIarity-Va-
riOus Other News From Abroad.
LONDON, July 6-The number Of Ameri-
can residents and visitors at present in
London is unprecedented, and their large
increase is attracting general attention
The time was not very long ago when the
presentation Of Americans to the queen and
their participation in public receptions, ex-
hibitions, formal ceremonies, ETC., were rare
events, but now they have become among
the most common occurrences; and, indeed,
such occasions would nowadays seem con-
spicuously strange and lacking in their
ordinary features if the Americans were not
in some way connected with them
Although Americans have been noticeably
prominent in London society for some time
and particularly so during the jubilee featiy-
tiles, the numerical strength of their repre-
sentation here was not at any time so appar-
ent as Monday, the anniversary of American
independence, but the attempts of some of
them, among them many who were paying
their first visit to England and realizing
their first absence from American soil, 70
conceal their nationality and pose as Britons
wore SO pitifully apparent as to excite the
disgust of Englishmen and the Indignation
Of manly and patriotic citizens Of the United
States. A careful estimate reveals the fact
that there are now in London about 200, 900
Americans, including residents, pleasure
seekers, business sojournsrs, politicians in
search Of relaxation from intrigue labor,
professional people and last, but not least in
numbers, toadies to royalty and nobility and
tuft-hunters, and the indications are that
this average will be kept up, If not increased,
in the future
Some of the more shrewd Of the profess
sional and business visitors, both male and
female, have managed to turn to good ac-
count their recognition at the hands Of roy
atty as q means Of advertising their particu-
lar merits, or abilities, or binding the public
to their shortcomings with the glare Of
princely patronage, but in many instan ces
even this device has failed to convince the
British public Of the surprising worth of
their representations or the validity Of their
claims upon their popular attention.
Probably no American who has visited
London for purely business, or for that
matter speculative purposes In many years
has been more free from this vice than
Buffalo Bill and certainly no American has
received more conspicuous attention from
the royal family than he. His distinctively
American individuality has been In marked
contrast to the very many examples Of obse-
quious favning furnished by others in pur-
suit Of sovereigns and pound notes through
the endorsement OF persons in high places
and has contributed more toward his success
here than all Of the peculiar features of his
show combined and elevated him In the
respect of every one who admires manliness,
independence and patriotism and detests the
articles Of the adventurer and the hanger
on to the skirts of social lions or persons
within the charmed circle of the queens
household
The Hon. Justice William 0'Brien, Of the
queens bencl, division of the high court of
Justice of Ireland, IN opening the Clare ASST
zes yesterday reflected the pessmism which
pervades all branches Of the Tory govern
ment in regard to its Irish policy, by declar-
ing that the state of Ireland was never
worse than it is now, and asserting that the
country had never stood in such great need
of stringent and repressive laws as at pres
emit These ut.erances give literal express
sion to the temper Of the men who within
the next few weeks will be clothed with al
most absolute power in constituting and ad-
ministering the most arbitrary law that was
ever enacted for the government Of a civil
ICED people and the victims of that crowning
act Of injustice, knowing full we'll they have
nothing to expect in the way Of lenency,
are prepared to resist the operation of the
bill and the execution Of its provisions to
the last.